By Coach John Hughes “I have a new approach to being a ‘Superager’,” says Elizabeth Wicks, who just turned 73. “You must expend enough effort that you feel some ‘yuck.’ Do it till it hurts, and then a bit more.” As I write this, I’m sitting near my father-in-law, Dick, who turns 90…
Editor’s Note: Last year about this same time of year, Sheri Rosenbaum wrote this piece on fat bike riding as a winter training alternative. She’s still hitting the trails – and even the beaches of Lake Michigan – on “Chris,” her Trek Farley, named after the late comedian Chris Farley… “slow, large and a lot of fun!” We…
Next time you come to a patch of cracked or bumpy road that promises to rattle you uncomfortably, there are a couple of different techniques you can employ to help lessen the effects of that bad pavement and “float” over the rough stuff:
By Coach Rick Schultz As a cyclist (really, as a typical person), it’s extremely common for us to experience tight muscles in our daily lives. A tight muscle is a short muscle, and a short muscle cannot provide the power that a long muscle can. So, we need to stretch out those muscles to make…
By Coach Rick Schultz I noticed something on a ride recently that I see all too frequently. Following a couple of cyclists today, it was hard to pass them since they kept swerving as they looked over their shoulder. I see this all the time; a cyclist looks over their left shoulder and their bicycle swerves to…
